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American Legion Cicero Post #96

Cicero · Cook County · IL · 3 terminals
IGB license 250900219 · Operator: J&J Ventures Gaming, LLC
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Efficient gameset

Your performance · August 2026

NTI
$2,937
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$32
per machine · per day
Terminals
3
machines in service
Annualized NTI
$35,249
est. from latest month

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$979
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,345/mo
9th pct of 8,611 IL locations
#76 of 75 in Cicero
Hold
17.4%
this month
state median 9.4% · above
99th pct of 8,611 IL locations
100th pct of 75 in Cicero
Cycle rate
2.69×
this month
state median 2.60× · engagement
60th pct of 8,611 IL locations
83rd pct of 75 in Cicero
Play / machine
$5.6K
monthly · per terminal
state median $47.1K/mo
2nd pct of 8,611 IL locations
1st pct of 75 in Cicero

Against locations your size (1–3 terminals, 270 of them), your NTI/machine is −$655/mo vs the $1,634 peer median — bucketing by size keeps a small bar from being measured against a big one.

Where the money goes (August 2026)

NTI this month
$2,937
Gaming tax
−$1,028
After tax
$1,909
Your take-home
$955
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$1,028 · 35%Operator's 50%$955 · 32%Yours, 50%$955 · 32%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $955 to you and $955 to your operator this month. Neither side can move that split. That's the whole point of The Gameset: with the split set by statute, operators compete for your gameset on service — games, cabinets, refresh cadence, response time.

Where your gameset stands

Efficient gameset

You earn a strong hold from steady traffic — the lever here is drawing more play, not squeezing the machines.

What an operator sees: An operator sees a well-run, efficient gameset — attractive, with upside if foot traffic can be grown.

NTI/machine — 9th percentile of 8,611 Illinois locations this month
In Cicero — #76 of 75 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (1–3 terminals) — 27th percentile of 270
Your gameset — you among your Cicero peers74 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Cicero peer (anonymized) statewide median

3 peer locations sit beyond the axis range and are drawn at the edge — shown, never dropped.

Each gray dot is another Cicero gameset for the same month, shown without identity. The dashed lines are the statewide medians — which quadrant you land in is the positioning above, drawn out.

Trend

Net terminal income by monthpeak $40,299
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Cicero median ($40,299)

One month loaded so far. The trend fills in as more monthly IGB reports are imported.

Your town's market

Cicero's total gaming income is +7% year over year (trailing 3 months vs the same 3 a year ago).

A deeper operator read

The same history, cut the way a Terminal Operator cuts it when they decide how hard to compete for your gameset.

Win per unit (WPU)
$32/day
per machine · per day · Cicero median $217/day · −85%
At the Cicero median this gameset would add roughly $206,546 a year.

Your operator

J&J Ventures Gaming, LLC
Locations
2,551
Avg NTI / Location
$33,062
Avg NTI / Terminal
$5,776
Total NTI
$84,340,803

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $979 in August 2026 — the 9th percentile of 8,611 Illinois locations that month. Per-terminal NTI is the number operators judge a gameset by, because it strips out how many machines you run.
•Within Cicero, that's #76 of 75 locations by per-terminal earnings — the fairest like-for-like, since neighbors share the same foot traffic and economy.
•Hold — the share of money played that the gameset keeps — was 17.4% — above the 9.4% state median. Hold is driven mostly by the games in the gameset, which is exactly what an operator brings to the table.
•A dollar cycled through your machines 2.69× before leaving — higher means longer, more engaged sessions. When the cycle rate starts falling it usually shows up before NTI does, so it's an early read on gameset health for both sides.
•Efficient gameset — You earn a strong hold from steady traffic — the lever here is drawing more play, not squeezing the machines.
•After $1,028 in gaming tax, August 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $955 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Terminal Operator J&J Ventures Gaming, LLC runs 2551 Locations in our data.
There's headroom in these numbers.

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Full August 2026 report detail
Amount played
$16,926
Amount won
$13,989
Net wager
$2,937
Funds in
$6,302
Funds out
$3,364
Net terminal income
$2,937
NTI tax
$1,028
State share
$881
Municipality share
$147

Source: Illinois Gaming Board monthly video gaming reports. This is public data about your own licensed Location, shown for informational purposes.